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Show HbIi ft i&v IH ORPHEUM. Ill Hpf, ' A couplo of rows back a pretty child was slt- Hlfij ting with her mother at the Orpheum, looking Hi just as bored as her elders during the Inexcusable HI j performance of Lew Bloom. As "The Great HI jf Tramp" left the stage, the tiny voice piped: "Is HI if that the end of him?" HI "Let us pray that It is," replied the mother, HI fervently, and achoes answered from surround- Hlir ing chairs, "Let us pray." HO N Among the exhibits of domestic camembert HB now posing or imposing on the great American J playgoers, L. Bloom must immediately be classed HB as "Al," and were it not for the high, price of liv- Hgl ing and the growing stinginess of the public, Lew Hi i would probably finish the season with as fine a HI J? collection of eggs as has ever been gathered In Hi this country. Half His is the worst act on the bill (quite a dls- II tinctlon, by the way), and with a couple of excep- HK tions there is nothing to be seen at the vaudeville Hff house this week up to the usual standard. HP Moffet and Clare start things gently with some fl amateurish songs and dances, and are followed Hi by Londe and Tilly in a brief but difficult gym- fb nastic stunt Ml Harry Armstrong and Billy Clark, the song f writers, played and sang themselves into popular Hl favor at overy performance, though their new hit, Hm "The Bold, Brave Fireman," sounds suspiciously Hill like "I've said my last farewell! Toot- Toot! Good- jllR bye!" Armstrong Is a comedian, as well as a good gj singer, and his stuff took hold and held for many fT an encore. m I Lancton, Lucier and company are here again j , in their mildewed messenger boy act, which was M , funny once, but which has been worn to a frazzle H with continuous repetition. m George Hillman and his "Redpath Napanees" M j are a sad acting lot, with a poor imitation of Gus V' j Edwards' clever bunch in "School Days." The H act is about as ragged as the silk and ruffles on M the four soubrettes, and about as amusing as an n operating table. w A redeeming feature at the close of the bill Mi ! was the performance of the Athleta Sisters, whose , ' wonderful feats of strength are the more re- H, ' markable from the fact that their arms appear to H ; be undersized so far as any extraordinary muscu- Hf lar development is shown. H ! Tilings look better for the week to come, with Hj Charlotte Parry and Company heading a bill H which also contains Selma Braatz, Marshall, Free- H ! man and Rogers, Cathryn Palmer, the Woods trio, H Frank Rogers, and Romania Hyde. H j & & Hj ' When Manager R. A. Grant returnejl from Bf Seattle early in the week the first thing he did H j was to jump into Ogden and start things on the H site of the old Utahna Theatre, where a fine new Hf theatre will be erected. H Those interested in the Peory estate will be H the principal backers of the new projct, and some H fifty thousand dollars will be expended in the Bf erection of the building. Hf All contracts have been let to Salt Lake and H Ogden men, and the theatre will be rushed to H completion without delay. The plans were drawn H i by E. W. Houghton, a Seattle architect, and the H house will be built along the lines of the Colonial PB' Theatre In this city, a plan favored by the North- B western Theatrical association. The Cort house IHt I in Serttlf is fr ilt in the same way, only upon a much ham.oomer scale. & & & For the opening week of the fall season in stock, the Willard Mack company will produce "Salomy Jane," Paul Armstrong's great play based Hr fivvViiWvSITIHH Selma Braatz, at the Orpheum next wee'c on Bret Harte's romantic story of early California Califor-nia dajs, which was first played with such remarkable re-markable success by May Robson, and which has not been seen in this city for two or three sea- sons. In "Salomy Jane" Mr. Mack, Miss Douglas, and the other members of the company have a rare opportunity, and as the play has never been seen here except at high prices, there will be a large number who will see the play for the first time. It is said that the stage settings for this production will be unusual in their beauty, and that much care has been taken to make them as nearly like the original as possible. Mr. Mack will be seen as The Man, and Miss Douglas as Salomy Jane. |